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1922.8.3

Ceramic flageolet

1922.8.3

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Collection type
Object
Description
Ceramic flageolet
Long description
Decorated pottery flageolet with long air-duct and 4 finger holes. Moulded decoration on bell and three red lines between first two finger holes. Dark brown glaze shaded to black above window, bell left unglazed.
Date
Date collected
By 1922
Acquisition information
Donated: 1922
Materials and processes
Material Pottery, Process Fire-Hardened, Process Glazed
Dimensions
Length: max 196 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1922.8.3
Research and responses

If this object is glazed, it is unlikely to be pre-Columbian. [LM 14/2/2000]

Search terms: Music, Pottery, Musical Instrument, Flute

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